Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1887-07-01
HIGH LICENSE.
Sam Small Terms il a Compro-
mise With the Prince
OF Evil.
Prohibition Not Necessarily
Confined to Long Haired Men
and Short Haired Women.


He Says . License Is Only Compromise
With the Devil.
In speaking Of prohibition and high
license Sam Small In his sermon at
Red Rock said:
1t is said by both the prea,her and
the editor frequently this prohibition
is for old long-haired men and short
haired women. God was the first
prohibitionist. 1t may suit either edi.
tor or politician to call prohibition .
modern invention, but he would never
call II this IL he knew anything Of the
Bible. I'm not q political prohibition
ist / don't want political advantage
for man, name or devil to be connected
with prohibition. / don't expect
Minnesota to turn fool all at once and
elect fellow governor just because he
does not drink anything. don't
want one set of rascsls turned out Of
Office and another set Of rascals put In,
and I've q profound contempt for
man who works prohibition for the
sake Of getting an Office. But I'm In
favor of prohibition. A man said TO
me to-day: 4 ou say you are not Re-
publican or Democrat and not third
party man, now what are you going to
do?' Why. things have not gone to
such stage that you've got to vote for
three parties. 1 want the third party
I'd like to organize, and that would
contain only brewers and distillers,
and saloon keepers, ETC., and then
every decent mans hand would be
against them. Let's have oil good
men working together. You Demo
Gratis and Republicans don't under
stand this more'n II I was talking
Greek. The only telescope you Dem
ocrats are looking through 10 an old
black bottle from the small end, and
looking through your mouth, and the
Republicans microscope is q murky
beer glass. "Woe unto the man who
giveth his neighbor drink" That
means not only the barkeeper, but all
you who had the power to kee p him
from doilg 1t. And your busin ness 10
to educate men to do their duty And
your duty to men and God is to take
sides In this question which Is &c etting
so powerful In deciding the destiI y OF
our nation and say: "No matter what
may become of party, I'll preserve my
integrity and make my way to
heaven" was connected with the
Senate at Washington, and when
there were only two men there for
whose principles on temperance / had
any respect, and those were Senator
Blair. of New Hampshire, and Senator
Window, of Minnesota. And II you
could convince the senators that be-
fore two presidential elections would
pass prohibition would be the national
power, they would all hustle up and
turn over and say: "Oh, well, / always
was o prohibitionist." Don't you
know that 1t 10 funny kind Of bust.
meas when Q saloon keeper can control
more votes than all the preachers in
the city? Well, you say, "I'm not q
slave of the brewers. don't drink,
I'm scholar and an L. l.. D., and an
A. 8. 81 You say the Democratic
party 10 the whiskey party. 1t 10 not
30, they have done more for temper
anoe than the Republican party. 1
can proveit; but don't belong to either
of the damnable parties and am not here
to talk on party politics. You say
"what have you to do with my Free
dom I? you've no right to make sump-
tuary laws.n An old devil like that
would not know sumptuary II he
saw 1t coming down the river with q
red flag on II. And the only sunni.
tuary law ever laid on the statute laws
Of the United States was passed by the
Republican and Democratic parties,
and that was the oleomargarine law.
But We don't want this oleomargarins
law. told the people at Washington
that I'd rather be choked 70 death on
axle grease than soaked to death on
whlskey. You talk about personal
liberty. Personal liberty IL the liber'
ty TO obey the law, and prohibition il
the common law of the United States,
and would be your law unless you had
state laws on this subject. You've
high license law here Ia Minnesota
and It's dandy. You're very tony
here In Minnesota. We've = Hotel
Ryan In 81. Paul, and Hotel West In
Minneapolis, and s.Pillsbury A, and
bar rooms at $1,000 apiece. You're
; compromising with the devil for sl-,
900 blood money instead Of $500. God
will reward you for IT, AndHou cant
; bribs God by building soldiers homes